I am a motorcoach…
. . . Two Six Eight reporting from Chicago, but not so much on Chicago. This adventure was about music. But before we get to that, a word or two about time. I heard a passenger say, quite pleased, “Oh good, we picked up time.” Later, equally pleased, a different passenger looked up from studying a handheld GPS and said, “Great, we dropped some time.” Curiously, both meant precisely the same thing by their statements: we were making good time. Whether “making,” “picking up” or “dropping,” or “being on” time, one must be engaged in some form of travel. The sedentary can kill time or waste time, but not do anything measurable or meaningful with it. For that you must be a traveler. It’s another reason why I love being a servant of travelers: like me, they place a high value on time. I only have so much time before new motorcoach models come out pushing to render me obsolete, or new technologies make roads (as we know them) obsolete. I’m not for sitting around in the garage. Get me out with the travelers, where the action is, where time is of the essence.
Until next time . . . happy travels.
Selfies
(which by definition means I’m in them . . . though you might have to look for me)
Here I am in Chicago. Ok, ju-u- u-u-ust kidding. This vintage pic represents what I expected but not the actual experience. Somehow I made it in and out of Chicago without seeing a single taxi, without waiting in traffic or encountering congested streets, and without seeing a tall building (due to overcast conditions). I’m certain it will never happen again.
This is the closest I came to anything I would expect of a visit to The Windy City, which could also be coined the city of perpetual construction.
Here was the focus of our trip – yes, this seemingly ordinary building. By Chicago standards its appearance is especially ordinary, perhaps even non-descript. But at closer study you will see it is anything but ordinary. Back to our subject of time: see those lines above the windows bearing my fashionable image? A musical time motif – a clue to the extraordinary activities going on inside. “Wait,” you might object, “there should be five lines.” Well, genius is often owed to what is missing, measured silence, what is not stated but implied, that which suggests and awaits creation. This building, by the way, is where Lowrey organs are designed, fashioned, and shipped out to world-wide destinations.
MEETING THE NEWS on the roadways of America, first-hand, real time, real world news—going out and discovering the news . . .
NEWS OF COMMUNITY: My passengers were a tight knit group brought together by music . . . specifically keyboards . . . more specifically, those found at Lacefield Music stores in Metro St. Louis.
TECHNOLOGY IN THE NEWS: Even more specifically, the Lacefield keyboards that brought them together are integrated into the design of Lowrey organs. Yikes! And I thought my control panel was sophisticated. According to the glowing reports of my passengers, Lowrey organs – and the Lowrey Virtual Orchestra – are the result of relentless pioneering of the most advanced sound generation technologies from the 1920s to present.
(Unlike selfies, these are not about me, but about places you’ll want to visit.)
When passengers disembark and head out on their adventures, I never know what treasures of discovery they will return with. These submissions are in the form of video. So, take a little time and enjoy the music!
I have never heard a more fitting last name than that belonging to world renowned organist, DyAnne Awe. Watch this video clip of her performing her own composition of the music from Fiddler on the Roof and you’ll know what I mean. (7:55)
Refer back to what I said above about genius owed to what is missing and you’ll have a fine introduction to the fellow featured in this video. His name is Bil . . . Bil Curry. Bil is a music producer, the creative genius behind all musical content programmed into Lowrey organs. And: amazing! (6:41)
Quote Of The Day samples
“If you can’t do great things, do small things in a great way.” ― Napoleon Hill
“There are three kinds of ballplayers: those who make things happen, those who watch what happens, and those who wonder what happened.” ― Tommy Lasorda.
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Oh my goodness!! Be still my musical loving soul!! That was incredible!